Nonviolent Activist, January-February 2006

The Mercenary Challenge to Anti-militarism:
Privatizing (In)Security
By Celine Joiris

Mercenaries are nothing new; people outside of national armies have been fighting and dying for pay since the days of ancient Rome. Now in the midst of another empire’s reign, “private security companies”—as they are benignly called—have been on the rise in the United States for several decades. Under the Bush administration however, they have become central to the war on and occupation of Iraq.

Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006

Excerpts from a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City.

Nonviolent Activist, January-February 2006

ACTIVIST REVIEWS

Busting Myths
By G. Simon Harak

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
By Norman Solomon
2005, John Wiley & Sons; 314 pages; $24.95, hardcover

Nonviolent Activist, January - February 2006

NVA LETTERS

Déjà Vu

I am deeply troubled by the article written by Bill Weinberg in your Nov-Dec 2005 issue: “The Question of International A.N.S.W.E.R.”

As a 72-year-old who remembers the intra-left squabbles of the many “Socialist/Socialist Workers/SPF”groups of the 1950s and how those futile conflicts served mainly to fuel the right-wingers and the Joseph McCarthyite movement of the time, I think “Déjà vu! Enough already!”